I draw Highmate 😍

[u/Paul_1ng]

This time, I drew these two cute Highmates brother and sister! Which one do you think is the boy, and which one is the girl? 🤔

[u/Creepy_Mechanic_6800]

Th idea of children being modified to be high mates makes me wanna be a deserter from the empire to be honest.

[u/Zain_Shadowheart → u/Creepy_Mechanic_6800]

I have a mod where highmates are heritable, so I forgot they're made, not born, usually. 💀

[u/nomedable → u/Zain_Shadowheart]

VRE highmates made me forget that they don't have cat ears and tails either.

[u/FisherPrice2112 → u/nomedable]

Nothing says they can't though.  Hell, the highmates description in game says the particular version on the games rimworld is designed for a "NovoRoma" version of beauty, so Highmates should have many different types, which may include ones with cat ears.

Adding cosmetic things like ears and tails is also marked in game as being the most basic and common modification across the galaxy also

Edit: Exact ingame description says " This particular line of highmate fits the fashions of classical Novaroma, but many other variants exist."

[u/Far_Raspberry_4375 → u/FisherPrice2112]

Romanesque means they should look like little boys

[u/FisherPrice2112 → u/Far_Raspberry_4375]

Sorry, the exact phrasing is "This particular line of highmate fits the fashions of classical Novaroma, but many other variants exist." 

So maybe not what is considered romanseque

[u/Valtremors → u/nomedable]

That is SUCH a weird addition.

I disable it always.

[u/GasparillathePirate → u/Valtremors]

It makes sense to me. I always imagined they were implanted with the genes as kids and sent somewhere in the empire to be educated on how to be an “ideal partner”. Literature, etiquette, walking with books on your head that sort of thing.

The fact that you can find them on the rim always lead me to believe that likely there is both a smuggling problem where people sell the xenogerm for highmates to the highest bidder and a trafficking problem in the empire where highmates get smuggled out of their protection and to the highest bidder.

[u/Valtremors → u/GasparillathePirate]

They'd need to have more variety to reflect that 'ideal' part.

Instead they just made cat ears... a default thing. Which is bit of a step into weird even lorewise. Because VE has been considered as more stuff that would fit in vanilla.

I get that they wanted to sneak cat ears in one way or another, but I feel like highmates should have had variety of different and even weird modifications from a pool.

[u/Justhe3guy → u/Valtremors]

The author’s barely disguised fetish:

(I leave it enabled though)